Public School Advocate Matt Damon Enrolls Kids in Private School

[CaseyJones]

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/08/05/Matt-Damon-Refuses-to-put-kids-in-los-angeles-public-schools


Actor Matt Damon is a strong supporter of America's public schools. Just two years ago, the star spoke passionately about the importance of public schools at a Washington DC "Save our Schools" rally. In fact, the actor is so impressed with public school teachers that he has demanded they receive a pay raise. That passion and conviction, however, does not apply to Damon's own children who will not be enrolled into the Los Angeles public school system.

In an interview with the Guardian published Saturday, Damon revealed that he had just moved to Los Angeles from New York, but that he didn't "have a choice" when it came to putting his four daughters into private schools. The multi-millionaire did say that it was "a major moral dilemma" and then made the bizarre excuse that the public schools aren't "progressive" enough.

This would probably mark the first time anyone has ever complained that America's public schools, especially in Los Angeles, aren't left-wing enough.

The Guardian interview is part of the 42 year-old actors promotional tour for his upcoming sci-fi tentpole "Elysium," which opens Friday.

According to early reviews, "Elysium" is a big-budget action film that condemns a future Los Angeles where the super-rich use their wealth and privilege to separate themselves and their families from the city's poor.

:rolleyes:

[cjm]

That's rich.

[Matt Collins]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ7icVvDK9I

[Occam's Banana]

[...] Damon revealed that he had just moved to Los Angeles from New York, but that he didn't "have a choice" when it came to putting his four daughters into private schools. The multi-millionaire did say that it was "a major moral dilemma" and then made the bizarre excuse that the public schools aren't "progressive" enough.

http://i.imgur.com/GsgaU.jpg

[phill4paul]

Idiot says that she would spend a million dollars on education for her children. Put up or shut up. Oh, she meant any amount of other people's money. Got it. :rolleyes:

[Snew]

lol

[aGameOfThrones]

Well, I guess Scotty doesn't know.

[jllundqu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnPWJOJYVKc

[Christian Liberty]

These people are disgusting... Although, I'm glad he's not poisoning his own daughters with the poison he wants for all others.

[NIU Students for Liberty]

Just like Elizabeth Warren and Noam Chomsky working for two of the most expensive and selective private universities in the U.S. But you know, they're doing it for the poor and underprivileged...

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

These people are disgusting... Although, I'm glad he's not poisoning his own daughters with the poison he wants for all others.


There's the "major moral dilemma."

The real issue is their lack of faith in fellow humans and communities, so they feel they need to force it. Damon did not come up with these ideas on his own.

[Christian Liberty]

Just like Elizabeth Warren and Noam Chomsky working for two of the most expensive and selective private universities in the U.S. But you know, they're doing it for the poor and underprivileged...

You know, as bad as Chomsky is on some issues, at least he put a lot of his time into the ones he was right about (Foreign policy.)

I primarily judge a person based on what they actually do. One of my uncles does a great job as a pastor and doesn't teach politics from the pulpit, so even though he's a neocon politically, I don't view him in the same light as I would view Tom Cotton or Lindsey Graham.

Chomsky has, to my knowledge, put the majority of his time into foreign policy. So even though I oppose his economic stances, I still support his opposition to imperialism.

[darkstar725]

Big shocker there...My uncle is the CFO of Gwinnett County Public Schools, and you can bet all his kids went to private schools. That was of course when he actually lived in Gwinnett County; now that he's moved to Walton County he's pushed for another property tax increase in Gwinnett (which they of course agreed to).

[tangent4ronpaul]

Dang, Michelle Fields is H0t!

Here's and interview with her from C-SPAN:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/302838-1

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[HOLLYWOOD]

Big shocker there...My uncle is the CFO of Gwinnett County Public Schools, and you can bet all his kids went to private schools. That was of course when he actually lived in Gwinnett County; now that he's moved to Walton County he's pushed for another property tax increase in Gwinnett (which they of course agreed to).See this all the time... then when the new indoctrination brainwashing centers(public schools) are built to kick out obedient zombies.. parents wonder why their children can't get jobs, everything is expensive, and they can't afford to live in Progressivetown USA.

Damon, Affleck, & the rest of the Ivory Tower Marxists, want everyone equal, with the exception of themselves... which is, excuse and excuse, to either fool the public or lie to themselves.


TOTAL FAIL

[tangent4ronpaul]

Well, to be fair, a major reason they can't get jobs is because of all the Engineers and PhD's that have flooded the burger flipping job market...

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[Henry Rogue]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MKmejXZJN2M

[BlackTerrel]

He's passionate about making public schools better for the majority of kids who can't afford private schools.

That said - he is getting his kids the best education he can afford.

That doesn't strike me as at odds.

[tangent4ronpaul]

Dang, Michelle Fields is H0t!

Here's and interview with her from C-SPAN:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/302838-1

-t

This is actually a pretty interesting interview. Arround 10:00-12:00 she starts talking about how journalism has changed. Instead of covering an event and maybe interviewing a few people, you follow the person the whole 5 miles and maybe get a "Reality TV" type moment. How reporting can't be not biased. About making things go viral... What's news now and what's not vs 50 years ago...

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[ObiRandKenobi]

ruling class

[Zippyjuan]

Celebtities may choose a private school because they feel it may offer their kids more safety/ security from things like paparazzi or stallkers than a public school would. Perhaps this why Damon felt "forced" to make the choice he did?

[aGameOfThrones]

He's passionate about making public schools better for the majority of kids who can't afford private schools.

That said - he is getting his kids the best education he can afford.

That doesn't strike me as at odds.

http://i1305.photobucket.com/albums/s545/LyingHurtsAllTheTime/racist_zps98f0c6e6.gif

[AuH20]

Considering how vehemently such "celebrities" are against school vouchers, this is comically hypocritical.

[Henry Rogue]

http://i1305.photobucket.com/albums/LyingHurtsAllTheTime/racist_zps98f0c6e6.gif And that's not a counter-argument.

[AuH20]

There's the "major moral dilemma."

The real issue is their lack of faith in fellow humans and communities, so they feel they need to force it. Damon did not come up with these ideas on his own.

White liberals are the biggest jagoffs on the planet. There is no close comparison.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hm8wXZmRD8

Ben Carson on white liberals:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/3/dr-ben-carson-white-liberals-most-racist/

[Henry Rogue]

He's passionate about making public schools better for the majority of kids who can't afford private schools.

That said - he is getting his kids the best education he can afford.

That doesn't strike me as at odds.So he may claim, But he also claims teachers are underpaid. He is talking about increasing teachers profits through force and that is not about the kids.

[Lucille]

Celebtities may choose a private school because they feel it may offer their kids more safety/ security from things like paparazzi or stallkers than a public school would. Perhaps this why Damon felt "forced" to make the choice he did?

LOL Why speculate when you can read what he actually said (http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/aug/02/matt-damon-activist-star-elysium)?


Choosing a school has already presented a major moral dilemma. "Sending our kids in my family to private school was a big, big, big deal. And it was a giant family discussion. But it was a circular conversation, really, because ultimately we don't have a choice. I mean, I pay for a private education and I'm trying to get the one that most matches the public education that I had, but that kind of progressive education no longer exists in the public system. It's unfair." Damon has campaigned against teachers' pay being pegged to children's test results: "So we agitate about those things, and try to change them, and try to change the policy, but you know, it's a tough one."

This killed me:


Matt Damon's politics owe a great deal to his mother. The first time Nancy Carlsson-Paige saw her son featured in a glossy magazine, she was appalled. "My beautiful boy is being used to sell products," she told a newspaper. "He is just a cog in the capitalist system." She'd never even read a magazine like Vanity Fair before, her son explains. "She's a professor. If it's not the Nation, she doesn't read it. And she said, 'This thing is nothing but page after page of adverts for products that nobody needs!'" He chuckles. I'd love to know what his mother makes of his latest film, Elysium, a big-budget sci-fi action thriller packed with set-piece fights and expensive pyrotechnic violence. "Hmm, well, my mom's big on non-violent conflict resolution," he grins.

Oh noes! Not capitalism! And is she big on non-violence? She sure likes it when the state uses the violence to force her statist progressive will on us all though, doesn't she?


Damon has been a passionate public supporter of Barack Obama and is confident that his healthcare reforms will rescue America from the iniquities Elysium dramatises.

Actually, Barry's Big Fascist Medical System will increase the "iniquities," but go ahead and believe whatever makes you happy.


But Edward Snowden's surveillance revelations have just emerged when we meet and, Damon admits, "It just seems to have taken this weird, Orwellian turn. It's surreal. I don't know where we are now."

A creepy global high tech Panopticon is where we are now, Matt.


He does, however, have a theory about how these developments have happened under Obama's presidency. "I think it's tough for guys who weren't in the military," he says. "One, their manhood is kind of challenged on some level, I imagine, and they allow themselves to get bullied. And two, they're just politically afraid of either looking soft or looking incompetent, so they overcompensate."

LOL So Obama's a big beta puss who's slaughtering innocent people and destroyed our rights for political purposes? GMAFB. You support Bush on steroids.

Shut up and sing!

[BlackTerrel]

So he may claim, But he also claims teachers are underpaid. He is talking about increasing teachers profits through force and that is not about the kids.

That's certainly a valid argument against his positions.

The idea in the OP is not.